Investing in commercial real estate, even as it’s at the peak of the market, can be a lucrative and stable investment. The odds are even more in your favor if you are forward-thinking in your approach. In this three-part series, we will offer seven reasons why you should (still) be bullish on commercial real estate in 2019.

To price or not to price? That is the question. I have pondered for years whether or not it was good practice to price an asset. Here are two main reasons for not pricing commercial real estate assets. The first, is if there is some underlying value greater than...

Learn How CMI Can Help Your Business Join one of our live webinars for a comprehensive look into the capabilities of CRE market intelligence and how it can help your business. CREXi MARKET INTELLIGENCE (CMI) In January, CREXi launched CREXi Market Intelligence (“CMI”)...

CREXi has been named to Built In LA’s 2019 Best Places to Work awards in the Small Companies category! Built In LA’s 2019 Best Places to Work awards recognize businesses that go out of their way to provide employees with the support — both financial and...

There’s more to perfect commercial real estate loans than a boast-worthy interest rate. A primary appeal of real estate is employing the power of leverage. And choosing the right loan is among the most important decisions you make in any purchase.

A Property Owner’s Guide to Being a Successful Commercial Real Estate Landlord If being a commercial real estate landlord were easy, there’d be a lot less money in it. A solid understanding of what it means to be a property owner is essential for first-time...

Learn the Art, and Science, of Deal-Making. Buying commercial real estate for the first time is often a stressful experience, and negotiations can be especially intimidating. Good negotiating is often misunderstood as the means by which you rake an adversary over the coals.

A Thorough List of Inspections and Reports Can Avoid Costly Mistakes It’s not the sexiest part of the deal, but a lax due diligence process can spell disaster for even the most seasoned commercial real estate investor. The short period to kick the tires between...

The goal of your first commercial real estate investment should be simple: Make sure there’s a second one. From site selection to underwriting to partnerships and construction management, successful real estate investors must cultivate a quiver of wide-ranging skills.

Birds are hard wired to seek out warmer climates. It turns out humans are too. During what is now the second-longest economic expansion in US history, Americans have flocked south. Driven by milder weather, plentiful jobs and a lower cost of living, these migration trends…

As billions pour into financial tech, an increasing share of those investments are being directed towards the CRE sector. From online marketplaces to virtual tours to blockchain syndications, innovation is forcing participants industry-wide to reevaluate their respective value props.

Mike DeGiorgio on The Real Market with Chris Rising – Episode 19 – Mike DeGiorgio is Founder and CEO of CREXi, a platform developed to advance the trillion-dollar commercial real estate industry by supplying users with innovative technology to simplify and expedite the transaction process.

Since our launch in 2015, we’ve received numerous requests to also provide leasing capabilities that leverages CREXi’s high-powered platform and online marketplace. We pushed our team to make this a reality, and we are excited to announce that our lease marketplace is now live!

Overreaction to the Amazon effect on retail is causing it to be product type non-grata. Retail is not changing, it has already forever changed. In advance of the ’18 ICSC RECON expo in Las Vegas, it’s an opportune time for our annual “Analysis Without Paralysis” retail market predictions.

Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods last year was a definite tipping point in the retail real estate landscape. The online giant, already thought of as the leading threat to brick-and-mortar retailing, squarely became a significant player in the physical-store place with the ownership

CREXi, the commercial real estate industry’s fastest growing marketplace and tech platform, announced an $11MM Series A. The round was led by Jackson Square Ventures. Other investors included Manifest Investment Partners, Lerer Hippeau Ventures…

The 90th Academy Awards Ceremony is happening this weekend. To get in on the Oscar fun, we created our own version with a CRE twist. Read on to take a look at all the amazing winners and enter your prediction for Best Picture for a chance to win a $100 movie gift card!

This powerful tool allows you to customize your pipeline in order to prioritize and manage listing. Track the probability, commission and expenses to forecast your earnings in a neat, futuristic dashboard that includes: Total Pipeline Value, Total Commission, Total Pursuits, Total Pursuits Converted

Instantly get a visual of how well your email marketing initiatives are performing with the new Marketing Widget. This widget shows the total reach attributed to a specific email campaign. Run your email marketing campaigns from one convenient location, CREXi’s Marketing Portal…

Email marketing continues to be a vital component in every industry, particularly commercial real estate. At CREXi we have sent more than 10,000 emails in the past 24 mos. Those 10,000 emails have provided endless amounts of data, and we continue to tailor our email strategy…

In this modern-age digital landscape, being over-exposed is not an uncommon sentiment. From our personal lives being on full display via social media to our online shopping habits tracked, bundled, and sold to the highest bidder, it seems that sentiment is not without merit.

CREXi continually improves its CRE tech offerings by adding new features, oftentimes stemming from valued user feedback. For our latest Tech Update, the goal was to provide a way for the CREXi user to categorize their listings into portfolio-style groups with the ability to share…

Here at CREXi we are passionate about continuously developing meaningful product features that help CRE professionals save time & resources while accelerating their business results. Our latest tech update is filled with a host of new features and improvements, from enhanced deal marketing…

Here at CREXi, we’ve got more than a few heavy hitting baseball fans. Couple that with the excitement of a LA Dodgers World Series appearance that has brought a real buzz to the greater LA area and we figured it was a great time to have a little fun and share some ‘CRE by the numbers’…

A CREXi Marketing Portal Tale: There once was a story about Tom and Jane, two commercial real estate professionals whose journey was documented by the CREXi Marketing Team, and the paths they took produced two very different conclusions with one sailing on a yacht….

It must be that time of year. We’ve had three calls from acquaintances asking what’s the best way for their child, who just obtained their degree in Greek Mythology (or some other similar study), to get into Commercial Real Estate (“CRE”). Perhaps it’s a sign of “market heat” and CRE’s

Read these 10 books and accelerate your career. It started in the 1990’s and is becoming more and more pervasive. I’m talking about the new wave of brokers and their shocking lack of reading. I noticed it first when junior brokers in my firm would start using basic phrases that every salesperson…

Top 10 Summer Reading Picks for the CRE Professional: But first, “to read or not to read” that is the question being hotly debated over a couple of brews at the local tavern. After a busy day of work Eli and I got a couple pints and discussed life, the Universe and the books we are currently reading…

In May I shared my Top Ten Tips for Surviving ICSC RECON 2017. Having now had two weeks to work off my hangover, I thought it valuable to share some additional thoughts from this year’s ICSC RECon conference. Send me your tips for surviving and thriving at ICSC RECon Las Vegas…

Who will win the battle for retailers? Traditionally in retail, traffic counts and signalized corners are the most coveted locations for retailers and therefore generally the most expensive. While I don’t expect this to change for some uses like gas stations which are dependent on ingress and egress…

I attended my first ICSC in Vegas when I was 22 years old representing a shopping center management and leasing firm. Boy, did I make some rookie mistakes. Here are ten tips that I’ve learned the hard way over the last 25 years of attending ICSC and other RE conferences in Las Vegas…

Last week I touched on why cities will see more activity than suburbs for a cycle in Pre ICSC Retail Forecast – Part II. In preparation for ICSC, we are putting together several prediction pieces starting with last week’s opener. Driven by economic and societal trends and a quest…

Urbanization will dominate suburbia in population movement next cycle: In preparation for ICSC, we are putting together several prediction pieces starting with last week’s opener Pre ICSC Retail Forecast – Part I. Based on anecdotal data, interviews with institutional investors…

It’s nearing May signifying that retail analysis on the eve of ISCS is fast approaching. In the wake of recent store closures from once iconic retail flags, the discussion has already begun. At the risk of being bold and possibly wrong, we are publishing a series of ICSC/retail trends…

Stephen Ross – The Empire Builder: Stephen Ross, with an est net worth of approximately $8B, is one of the wealthiest RE developers in the world. Ross is a generous philanthropist and owner of the Miami Dolphins. How did the Detroit native build his NYC and beyond empire..

I know what you’re thinking. Have I lost my mind? Why is the kicker for the New England Patriots selling real estate? Did he just get fired by Belichick and get picked up by the local Remax on the waiver wire? Not even close. Stephen Gostkowski is still alive and kicking (punt intended)…

This just happened on my way to the airport. I am leaving on a trip to visit clients in the Carolinas so I order an Uber and head to the lobby of my building. As I enter, a woman is screaming into her phone that she ordered a cab over half-an-hour ago and was going to miss her flight…

In 2012 Chris Sheldon was acknowledged as a “Rising Star” at Cassidy Turley (now Cushman & Wakefield) after emerging as a net-lease market expert. Specializing in single and multi-tenant net leased investment properties, Chris has since grown into one of the top NNN brokers in the nation…

Here’s the final installment in our 5 part series on advice from commercial brokers around the US. In all, we heard from 25 Top Brokers who shared experience from over 500 years in the CRE business. While we won’t be posting any more, feel free to comment on LinkedIn and share your wisdom…

Leona Helmsley was a fierce business woman who would earn the nickname “The Queen of Mean” for “tyrannizing her employees.” According to Helmsley’s famed defense attorney, when he was brought a cup of tea during breakfast at one of her hotels, Helmsley grabbed the cup and smashed it…

CREXi Co-Founder Luke Morris tells us where he finds inspiration for developing new commercial real estate tools and features and his favorite products offered on the platform as CREXi enters 2017 with a fast-growing user-base and tens of thousands of CRE listings that grows daily…

HISTORIC BATH CLUB IN MIAMI BEACH BROUGHT TO MARKET – FEATURED ON CREXI The Historic Bath Club, located at 5937 Collins Avenue in Miami Beach, Florida, has hit the market and is featured on CREXi (Click Here). The Bath Club (“the Property”) which resides on over 5...

Dan Gilbert is known as the founder of Quicken Loans and sometimes associated with the city of Cleveland given his ownership of the Cavaliers, however, Gilbert is a Detroit native and has done more to revitalize downtown Detroit and bring the city back to prominence…

DJ Sandler joined CRE powerhouse, JLL, in 2015 after a very successful four-year tenure at Raytheon as the Deputy Director of Communications. Now as VP of Marketing for the West Coast at JLL, the Seattle native has brought his data-driven, multi-channel marketing approach to another Fortune 500 company…

Paul Allen, the famed co-founder of Microsoft has slowly built a real estate empire through Vulcan Real Estate, a name chosen as a homage to the extraterrestrial humanoid species from Star Trek. Though lesser known nationally, Vulcan has been a major player in the Seattle RE scene, one of the hottest markets in the nation…

And the advice keeps on coming. In continuing our ever popular “Lessons Learned” series, in this post we cover topics on the importance of networking, honesty, and teaming. The broker advice from around the country offers insight for novice industry professionals as well as those with many years of experience. Always be willing to learn something new…

CREXi is committed to giving back to the community and our first philanthropic mission in 2017 was teaming up with @HabitatLA on March 3 to build a house in our local community. We share the belief that the best way to make a positive impact on the world is to start with our local communities…

While some of our peers boast of having hundreds or thousands of employees, we believe a large head count needs to be managed (which can create cultural divides), but more importantly size brings large overheard costs which must be passed on to the consumer in the form of high fees to maintain margins. Philosophically we believe tech should make life more efficient…

The South FL team of Cushman & Wakefield led by Scott O’Donnell, Dominic Montazemi, and Miguel Alcivar located an out-of-market buyer in the $8.5MM sale of 1111 Park Centre Blvd, a 57,105 SF office building in N Miami-Dade Co. Online marketplace CREXi, helps find the buyer.

Activist investors are nothing new. Famed investors like Carl Icahn have made careers out of obtaining stock or equity in a firm and then attempting to force changes or restructuring to unlock perceived thus creating profit in a higher share price, the payment of dividends

Startup-life can sometimes feel like armies of naysayers and competitors are telling you to give up and get a “normal job.” Our team approaches those armies like Spartan warriors: aligned incentives, firm principals, a unified direction, and a honed ability to do more with less than those who can sometimes be paralyzed…

Andrew Frey is part of an emerging class of developers with institutional experience, entrepreneurial vision, energy, and creativity. As the market cycle appears to be changing and several iconic developers have announced their retirements, emerging developers like Frey will help shape Miami’s next development…

Jorge Perez, the Argentinian born Cuban real estate developer, moved to the US to attend college. Later he would obtain his master’s degree from the U of Michigan which his future business partner – Stephen Ross – also attended. Eventually Perez would move to Miami to lead the economic development…

Lessons Learned Part II – More Broker Advice from Around the Country. Since Lessons Learned Part II prompted such an overwhelmingly positive response, we decided to gather more words of wisdom from additional CRE industry leaders across the country for our third installment in the Lessons Learned series…

Gerald Hines, the famed developer and investor, developed some of the nation’s most iconic buildings, set new industry standards for building quality, and would ultimately build what’s been affectionately called a “complex empire” in reference to the complexity of his developments and his net worth of an est $1.3B…

Lessons Learned Part II – Broker advice from around the country. As a follow-up to last week’s post Ten Takeaways From 25 Years in Brokerage outlining my 25 years in commercial brokerage, we received several additional gems from top brokers around the Southeast. Here are some of our favorites…

Ten Takeaways from 25 Years in Brokerage. Before retiring from CBRE (while I still had hair) my team had a twenty plus percent market share in the non-institutional Miami Office and Industrial investment sales market. Here are some things I learned over twenty-five years in the Commercial Real Estate business…

Lender Profile and Interview – Trez Forman Capital’s Ben Jacobson. Ben honed his skills while modeling and executing deals for the national advisory firm’s Equity Practice Group. The group’s sweet spot was in raising LP equity and corresponding debt usually for ground-up developers across the nation….

While east coasters may not be as familiar with Donald Bren, Bren has amassed an approx. $17B fortune through development and investment in Southern CA and beyond. The OC Weekly wrote the Bren “wields more power than Howard Hughes ever did, probably as much as any man in America over a concentrated region…

Ask your group a provoking choice question. Encourage debate. It keeps the brain moving even while you’re potentially ingesting liquids that slow it down. Would you take $7MM today, if you could never earn money again (you can work without pay, but no salary, no interest, no home appreciation, no investing)…

Profile of a Legend: Trammell Crow was a famed developer, investor, and executive who for decades built iconic properties and lasting partnerships across the country before taking Trammell Crow Company public in 1997. TCC would sell to CBRE in 2006. After World War II Crow left the Navy…

When discussing our company mission with a well-known investor he asked one wise and Buddha-like question in its simplicity: “why now?” While I had immediate answers, I continue to ponder the question. The entrepreneur says “why not now” and presses forward. Why should anything happen NOW and not tomorrow?…

Sometimes gruff, foul-mouthed, and a political instigator, Sam Zell, known for his prowess in timing market-cycles, is credited with having helped create the modern CRE industry, and has been dubbed “the Grave Dancer” for his ability to “dance on the graves of others’ mistakes” and profit off of distressed deals…

Posted: January 11, 2017 by Paul Cohen, Regional Director UNCLAIMED PROPERTY Read to the end to see if you have any unclaimed property…. I got my first job in sales when I was still at college. It was from a blind ad in the newspaper (no internet back then). I showed...

This week’s blog is meant to be short, sweet, and sans any company fluff about why you should visit us at CREXi.com (although you should). Having grown up and spent my whole career in the commercial real estate industry, I wanted to share some concise thoughts on why I love the industry and asset class…

I recently met a long-time broker-friend for lunch. In typical broker-friend style, he texted me five minutes before we were due to meet telling me he was finishing up a project and asked if I would come to his office first. I did. He was hunched over a workstation with who I assumed was his marketing assistant at the computer’s controls…

Back in ’02, I was at a conference for a select group of CBRE brokers invited to be part of a new division called the Private Client Group. It was an exciting time. Led by a maverick named Glen Esnard, we had one mandate: to design and build a platform…